The
Detroit Film Theatre continued its summer vacation. It gave way to the
Afternoon Film Theatre, which presented a series of "Hollywood whodunits"
that screened at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays through Sundays in the Lecture/Recital
Hall or the Holley Room of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Films in the
series included Phantom
Lady (1944), Murder,
My Sweet (1944), Mildred
Pierce (1945) and The
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).

At
the Michigan, the Michigan Community Theatre Foundation presented an Independence
Day Vaudeville show on Friday, July 3. It included organist Don Haller,
the Galliard Brass Ensemble and the film Sergeant
York (1941).

Two
famous duos appeared at the Redford. On July 10 and 11, Spencer Tracy
and Katharine Hepburn starred in Adam's
Rib (1949). Two weeks later, the Laurel and Hardy Festival included
Sons of
the Desert (1933), Brats
(1930) and Saps
at Sea (1940).